Extra Header field

Joon Radley joon at radleys.co.za
Mon Jul 12 16:40:13 CEST 2004


Hi Bernard,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: kolab-format-bounces at kolab.org 
> [mailto:kolab-format-bounces at kolab.org] On Behalf Of Bernhard Reiter
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 4:35 PM
> To: kolab-format at kolab.org
> Subject: Re: Extra Header field
> 
> On Thursday 08 July 2004 16:14, Joon Radley wrote:
> > Could we add a extra header to the mails containing the 
> kolab format?
> >
> > This will help me to determine if the message is a kolab 
> format or a 
> > normal mail without parsing the object twice in multipart 
> mime encoded messages.
> 
> It seems that everyone understand that remark, can someone 
> explain to me why this is the case?
> If did not find anything in the format specs that we need to 
> use multi-part emails. Why not just having the mime-type set 
> in the header for the whole email?
> 
> > It would look something like this:
> > X-KOLAB-TYPE: application/x-vnd.kolab.note
> 

A Kolab object can have any number of attachments associated with it. This
will create a multipart mail message.

Best Regards

Joon Radley
Radley Network Technologies CC
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